Thomas jefferson biography history project
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In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form eller gestalt of tyranny over the mind of man."
This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of nation, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.
Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental församling, he contributed his pen rather than his röst to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to mak
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This FREE History Biography Research Report Project is for one historical figure Thomas Jefferson. It includes a Title Page for the student, Tracing Coloring Page, Fact Finder Research Sheet, Biography Poster with a timeline, Character Traits Bubble Map and Biography Report Pages for three different levels (Grades 1-3).
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
Early Years
Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743 (after the change in 1752 from the Julian, or Old Style, Calendar, the date was adjusted to April 13, which became common usage). He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson and was born at Shadwell, on the Rivanna River in a part of Goochland County that became Albemarle County in 1744. His father was a founding member of the Albemarle County Court, a prominent frontier surveyor, and creator with Joshua Fry of the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia. His mother was a member of one of the most politically influential families in eighteenth-century Virginia. Shadwell was well stocked in refined material goods consistent with gentry culture, despite its situation near the Virginia frontier.
After his father died on August 17, 1757, Jefferson inherited more than 5,000 acres of land, half of it in the environs of Shadwell, about twenty slaves, and his father’s books and mathematical i